Western Quotes

When in doubt, make a western.

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.

Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.

Western man is schizophrenic.

You know you're screwed when a Western doctor recommends acupuncture.

The most important word in American, in Western culture, is "I."

Every time I go to Africa, I see the future. I see what the Western world is going to become. It's a very futuristic place.

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me.

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.

The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it. And one movie doesn't preserve it. It's storytelling. It's a very American thing. I'll continue to do it.

I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.

The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's rules.

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

Unforgiven, I think, is the best Western ever.

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

I have always insisted on the need for local self-government for Russia, but I never opposed this model to Western democracy. On the contrary, I have tried to convince my fellow citizens by citing the examples of highly effective local self-government systems in Switzerland and New England, both of which I saw first-hand.

Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

Psychosis is a very Western phenomena.

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

Elections are a Western jerk-off.

The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.

The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesnt affect them.

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

I'm not into western medicine. That to me is a complete scare tactic.

The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.

Stagecoach is really my first Western, actually.

I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.

The western spirit is, or will yet be (for no other is, or can be) the true American one.

I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.

On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.

Western art has a certain relationship to nature.

Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.

Fandango is not really a Western. It's really just set in Texas. It's a road picture. And then I did one that hasn't come out yet called Kreep, which is set in Texas, but it's not really a Western. But it has a more rural-Texas feel to it.

Savagery was a word that Westerners used to, again, to consciously differentiate them from non-Westerners, to assert that superiority, that cultural superiority. It goes back to the British Empire, and again, you know, what was the purpose of the British Empire? To bring civilization to the savage no matter where they were, whether it was India or Asia or Australia or whatever. It's that civilizing mission that characterizes so much of the history of Western colonialism.